Rachael Shaw
Product Designer, CX at The Sails Company
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachael Shaw is a product designer and CX lead in Austin with 11 years of experience blending user-centered design and back-end engineering. She maintains and contributes to the widely used Sails.js ecosystem—improving adapters and ORM query logic—bringing rare full-stack fluency to product design decisions. At Fleet Device Management and prior roles at CoSell and Balderdash she has transitioned between developer and designer hands-on roles, shipping features while shaping developer-facing infrastructure. Her background in English and liberal arts informs clear documentation and empathy-driven UX, and her open-source work shows a steady attention to reliability, tests, and subtle bugfixes that improve long-running projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, English, Bachelor of Arts, English at Oakland UniversityLiberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Oakland Community College
French
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
validations10
testing10
data-modeling10
validation10
mongodb-database10
orm10
sailsjs10
web-framework10
error-handling10
nodejs10
mongodb10
database-connector9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
balderdashy/sails
Feb 2015 - May 2021
Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 99 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rachael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sails.js framework. Their commits focused on improving error handling and the internal workings of the framework. Specific contributions include handling uniqueness errors in the `add` and `replace` blueprint actions, updating the usage of `spawnChildProcess`, and refactoring comments for clarity. They also addressed a typo and made other minor text fixes.
realtimenode-jsjavascriptframeworknodejs
balderdashy/sails-mongo
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
MongoDB adapter for Sails.js / Waterline ORM.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 23 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rachael primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `sails-mongo` adapter. Their contributions include reverting a merged pull request, removing outdated comments, and modifying test files. The user also updated internal dependencies and made improvements to the code base, including changes in how the manager is created, which likely impacted the database interaction.
sails-jsadapterwaterlinewaterline-ormsails
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